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Discussing The Genealogy of Morals (mostly the first two essays) and Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 1 (The Prejudices of Philosophers), 5 (Natural History of Morals), and 9 (What is Noble?).

We go through Nietzsche’s convoluted and historically improbable stories about about the transition from master to slave morality and the origin of bad conscience. Why does he diss Christianity? Is he an anti-semite? Was he a lazy, arrogant bastard? What does he actually recommend that we do?

Online copies of the readings can be obtained at: http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/genealogytofc.htm and http://www.allphilosophers.com/nietzsche/nindex.html.

End song: “The Greatest F’in Song in the World,” from 1998’s Mark Lint and the Fake Johnson Trio